Vocal Music

  • Period: 600 to 800

    Gregorian Chant.

    Roman Catholic Church compiled its liturgical plainsongs.
  • 800

    First rules of of musical notation were established.

  • 800

    Second voice was added to plainsong and polyphony was born.

  • 800

    Secular monophony

  • 1200

    Mensural notation started to be used

  • 1200

    Goliards